News Release
September 2006
Bethlehem, Pa., September 13, 2006— Moravian College and
The Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Africana Consortium will welcome
professors Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery of Wake Forest University on Friday, September
15 at a brown bag lunch in the UBC room of the Haupert Union Building to discuss their
forthcoming book African American Families: Issues of Health, Wealth, and Violence (Sage).
Smith serves as professor
of sociology at Wake Forest, and served as chair of the sociology department from 1997-2005. He
is the director of the Wake Forest University American Ethnic Studies Program and the
Rubin Distinguished Professor of American Ethnic Studies. Smith has written extensively
concerning professions, stratification, urban sociology, and the sociology of sport,
and is a member of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Southern Sociological
Society, Sociologists for Women and Society, American Sociological Association, and the
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.
Hattery joined the
Wake Forest faculty in 1998 and holds the Zachary T. Smith Reynolds Professorship in
Sociology and Women & Gender Studies. Her research focuses on sociological
issues in stratification, gender, family, and race. She has authored numerous articles,
book chapters and books, including Women, Work, and Family: Balancing and Weaving. Hattery
earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The event is sponsored
by the Moravian College departments of English and Literature, Sociology, Psychology,
Political Science, Education, Philosophy, History, Religion, Economics and Business,
and Learning-in-Common. The event is open to all members of the Moravian community,
and attendees provide their own brown bag lunch. The HUB is located at the corner of
Monocacy and Locust Streets in Bethlehem. For more information, contact Dr. Joel
Rosen, assistant professor of sociology, at 610-625-7814.
